Leigh M. Johnson

30 Day Song Challenge (The Sequel), Day 5: Favorite Song For Driving Around Town With The Top Down

I don’t own, and never have owned, a convertible.  (That’s me and my bff Dana Gabrion in the picture here, on a truly epic trip I took to the Left Coast to hang with her in L.A. a couple of years ago.  Dana owns a convertible, of course.)  I drive what can only be called,…

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30 Day Song Challenge (The Sequel), Day 4: A Song For A Sunny Day

Today’s prompt in the 30 Day Song Challenge (The Sequel) is a little tough if you live in a place like Memphis. Why?  Because, if you live in a place like Memphis, your first question to yourself HAS TO BE: well, c’mon now, what kind of “sunny day” are you talking about? Of course, we…

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30 Day Song Challenge (The Sequel), Day 3: A Song For A Rainy Day

I should say first that there is very little that I don’t like about rainy days.  I don’t find them dark or depressing or forlorn at all.  On the contrary, I genuinely love a good rain, including and especially the blustery, electric, thunderous and torrential ones.  Even in its most violent expressions, there’s something soothing…

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30 Day Song Challenge (The Sequel), Day 2: A Song You Hate From A Band You Love

There’s very little that is more disappointing to a true music fan than when his or her favorite band records a bona fide stinker of a song.  When that happens, as it does all too often, I suspect most of us self-respecting music-lovers just avert our eyes/ears, turn away in ashamed obligation, give a conciliatory…

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30 Day Song Challenge (The Sequel), Day 1: A Song You Like From A Band You Don’t Like

Part of me wanted to object to beginning this Challenge with a band I don’t like, since that seems contrary to the whole spirit of the enterprise, but I suppose since I’m picking a song I do like (even if it is from I band I don’t like) then I won’t complain.  Though, I guess…

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30 Day Song Challenge (The Sequel): Rules

[For those of you who’ve arrived here from a link, you can read below the initial “rules” of the 30 day Song Challenge (The Sequel)… but, more importantly, the rest of you who are probably just looking for a quick access to ALL of Dr. J’s entries for the 30 Day Song Challenge (The Sequel).. …

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30 Day Song Challenge, Redux

A couple of years ago on this blog, for the whole month of June, I participated in the 30 Day Song Challenge, a rather ingenious invention by some anonymous music-lover on Facebook.  The way the 30 Day Song Challenge works is that it provides one “prompt” every day– for example, “a song that makes you…

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Those Children Were Not Babies

In a press conference shortly after the horrible news of the Connecticut grade-school shooting broke, White House press secretary Jay Carney said: “There is, I am sure– will be, rather– a day for discussion of the usual Washington policy debates, but I do not think today is that day.”  Carney could not have been more…

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2012 Year in Music

This has been a quiet year here on RMWMTMBM, but I didn’t want the year to end without my annual retrospective wrap-ups of 2012.  Following in the tradition of the last couple of years, I’ll break the lists up by topic, beginning with 2012 Year in Music. (If you’re feeling nostalgic, check out 2011 Year…

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2012 Year in Sports

Legendary Packers coach Vince Lombardi once said: “If winning isn’t everything, why do they keep score?”  In spite of the many ways sports serves as an apt metaphor for life, Lombardi’s sage reflection keys in on one of the important differences between sports and life.  Namely, in sports, they keep score.  On a scoreboard.  And…

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